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Senate Bill S5904

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires a mental health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S5904 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5976
2021-2022: S4984
2023-2024: S4295

2025-S5904 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a mental health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement when such incarcerated individual is in such confinement for a period in excess of twenty-four hours.

2025-S5904 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5904 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5904
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to requiring a mental
   health medical professional to  examine  incarcerated  individuals  in
   solitary confinement

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of  subdivision  6  of  section  137  of  the
 correction  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  322  of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) Where such confinement is for a period in  excess  of  twenty-four
 hours,  the superintendent shall arrange FOR A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH
 AN EXPERTISE IN MENTAL HEALTH  AND  for  the  facility  health  services
 director, or a registered nurse or physician's associate approved by the
 facility  health services director to visit such incarcerated individual
 at the expiration of twenty-four hours and at least once in every  twen-
 ty-four  hour  period thereafter, during the period of such confinement,
 to examine into the state of health of the incarcerated individual,  and
 the  superintendent  shall give full consideration to any recommendation
 that may be made by the facility health services director  for  measures
 with  respect  to  dietary  needs  or  conditions of confinement of such
 incarcerated individual required to maintain the health of  such  incar-
 cerated individual; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10347-01-5

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